Psychiatric Semiology — Expert Atlas of Psychism

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How it begins

Psychiatric semiology is the science that studies the signs and symptoms of mental disorders, their combinations into syndromes and their organization into diagnoses. Unlike classical medical semiology—dominated by objective physical findings—psychiatric semiology operates at the interface between clinical objectivity and the subjectivity of the patient's lived experience.

What it covers

1. Introduction to Psychiatric Semiology
2. · 1.1 The Mental State Examination (MSE)
3. · 1.2 Relationship between Symptom, Sign and Syndrome
4. Consciousness and its Alterations
5. · 2.1 Quantitative Alterations of Consciousness
6. · 2.2 Qualitative Alterations of Consciousness
7. Attention and its Alterations
8. · 3.1 Attention Alterations
9. Orientation and its Alterations
10. Memory and its Alterations
11. · 5.1 Types of Memory
12. · 5.2 Quantitative Memory Alterations
13. · 5.3 Paramnesias — Qualitative Distortions of Memory
14. Thought and its Alterations
15. · 6.1 Alterations in the Form of Thought (Process)
16. · 6.2 Alterations of Thought Content
17. · 6.3 The Delirium — Exhaustive Description
18. Language and Speech
19. Perception and its Alterations
20. · 8.1 Hallucinations
21. · 8.2 Illusions, Hallucinosis and Other Perceptual Phenomena
22. Affectiveness and its Alterations
23. · 9.1 Taxonomy of Affective States
24. · 9.2 Quantitative Mood Alterations
25. · 9.3 Qualitative Alterations of Affect
26. Psychomotor and its Alterations
27. · 10.1 Quantitative Alterations of Motor Activity
28. · 10.2 Catatonic Syndrome
29. · 10.3 Other Psychomotor Phenomena
30. Instinctive and Vegetative Functions
31. · 11.1 Sleep
32. · 11.2 Appetite and Eating Behavior
33. · 11.3 Libido and Sexual Function
34. Introspection, Criticism and Judgment
35. · 12.1 Insight (Introspection / Illness Awareness)
36. · 12.2 Clinical Judgment
37. Major Psychiatric Syndromes
38. · 13.1 Major Depressive Syndrome
39. · 13.2 Manic Syndrome
40. · 13.3 Schizophrenic Syndrome
41. · 13.4 Acute Confusion Syndrome (Delirium)
42. · 13.5 Dementia Syndrome
43. · 13.6 Dissociative Syndrome
44. The Psychiatric Interview
45. · 14.1 Structure of the Psychiatric History
46. · 14.2 Psychiatric Interview Techniques
47. Psychiatric Evaluation Scales
48. · Guiding Principle of Psychiatric Semiology